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​blog: You'll Never Be Quite the Same

Summer bends into July

7/3/2020

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Scenes of home as July ascends:
            Overhead grasses reach, bend, and droop.
            Fading daisies wilt and brown.
            Powdery-green scum skims and clouds the pond.
            Bullfrog voices are pitched ever lower, and bird song calms.
            The assiduous care of baby everythings loses urgency. Offspring fate is largely sealed; either they have fallen prey to something, or they’ve grown to strength and near-independence.
            Jonathan made me a walking stick with a narrow, inset, oval-shaped flaw at the top that looks like the eye of Sauron. He polished it to a smooth finish. I walk the paths like a sorceress, restraining the power that hums through her mighty staff.
            The dogs were unimpressed.

           
My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 311: 110 words, TOTAL = 50,860; 9,140 remaining

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    Robin Clifford Wood is an award-winning author, poet, and writing teacher.  She lives  in central Maine with her husband, loves to be outdoors, and enjoys ever-expanding horizons through her children, grandchildren, and granddogs.

    To read about the "60th year in 60,000 words" challenge, go to the August 27th blog post. 
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    https://www.robincliffordwood.com/youll-never-be-quite-the-same---blog/tomorrow-is-launch-day
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